Senior UX Researcher, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Job at Zillow, Oregon State

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  • Zillow
  • Oregon State

Job Description

About the team

The UX Research team sits within a multidisciplinary team of researchers, Zillow Research & Insights (ZRI), which includes Customer and Partner Insights Strategists, UX Researchers, Behavioral Scientists, and Population Scientists. We all play a significant role within the greater product and marketing organizations. ZRI sits within Zillow Experience Design (ZxD), a fast-paced, collaborative, and driven product design team. We’re a tight-knit, fun-loving, and upbeat group.

We build useful, usable, and innovative experiences for Zillow customers and partners. These experiences live across web, mobile, and internal software platforms.

Our team cares deeply about solving problems for real people – customers, co-workers, and everyone else. We seek to make everything a little better than we found it.

About the role

As a Senior UX researcher on ZRI, you'll be responsible for shaping exceptional experiences to reinvent and radically simplify real-estate. You'll provide our data-hungry team with meaningful insights and work with designers, design technologists, and cross-discipline partners to continuously learn and iterate our experiences. Our mission is to make Zillow the most-loved place to discover, buy, sell, and rent a home.

Responsibilities

  • Apply appropriate qualitative and quantitative research methods to evaluate and identify opportunities to improve Zillow’s experiences

  • Lead research activities like participant recruiting, user interviews, long-form surveys, site-intercept surveys, diary studies, co-design sessions, concept evaluation, and usability testing

  • Synthesize and frame user needs to guide product strategy and innovation

  • Lead multiple projects independently, prioritize research efforts based on business objectives, and drive a research roadmap for a multi-disciplinary team 

  • Uphold responsible AI development practices to ensure ethical, transparent, and fair usage of AI technologies - both for internal partners and for our shared end customers

  • Present research insights and regularly engage with designers, design technologists, product managers, data scientists, applied scientists, engineers, and other researchers

  • Travel to in-person collaboration sessions and team building events ~6-8 weeks per year

  • Contribute, learn, grow, and have fun

This role has been categorized as a Remote position. “Remote” employees do not have a permanent corporate office workplace and, instead, work from a physical location of their choice, which must be identified to the Company. U.S. employees may live in any of the 50 United States, with limited exceptions.

In California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Washington state, and Washington DC the standard base pay range for this role is $145,500.00 - $232,500.00 Annually. This base pay range is specific to California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Washington state, and Washington DC and may not be applicable to other locations.

In addition to a competitive base salary this position is also eligible for equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location. Actual amounts will vary depending on experience, performance and location.

Who you are

  • PhD & 4+ years of industry experience as a UXR, or

  • PhD & post-doc & 2 years of industry experience as a UXR

  • Expertise designing and executing evaluative research studies to assess digital experiences

  • Experience moderating remote/virtual research with research participants (e.g., interviews, usability testing)

  • Expertise in survey design

  • Expertise in descriptive and inferential statistics

  • Expertise with data analysis using R or Python and familiarity with SQL

  • Proven track record thriving in a fast-paced, collaborative environment exploring ambiguous opportunity areas

  • Adept prioritizing research activities to deliver practical insights and direction quickly

  • Programmatic thinker able to stand-up and execute multi-phased efforts and research programs

  • Interest in exploring new experimental methodologies and tools

  • Strong, proven product sense

  • Nice to have : hands-on experience experimenting with AI tools in research workflow and curiosity about AI industry trends 

  • Nice to have : systems background (finance sector, medical/insurance), or another highly regulated industry benefitting from “outside the box” thinking

Get to know us

Zillow is reimagining real estate to make home a reality for more and more people.

As the most-visited real estate website in the United States, Zillow® and its affiliates help movers find and win their home through digital solutions, first class partners, and easier buying, selling, financing and renting experiences. Millions of people visit Zillow Group sites every month to start their home search, and now they can rely on Zillow to help make it easier to move. The work we do helps people get home and no matter what job you're in, you will play a critical role in making home a reality for more and more people.

Our efforts to streamline the real estate transaction are supported by a deep-rooted culture of innovation, our passion to redefine the employee experience, a fundamental commitment to Equity and Belonging, and world-class benefits . These benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverages as well as parental leave, family benefits, retirement contributions, and paid time off. We’re also setting the standard for work experiences of the future, where our employees are supported in doing their best work and living a flexible, well-balanced life. But don’t just take our word for it. Read recent reviews on Glassdoor and recent recognition from multiple organizations, including: the 100 Best Companies to Work For, Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award, Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index, Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Corporate Equity Index, and TIME 100 Most Influential Companies list.

Zillow Group is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment with the best employees. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact your recruiter directly.

Q ualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable state and local law.

Applicants who receive job offers from Zillow Group will be asked to sign a Proprietary Rights Agreement which includes confidentiality, intellectual property assignment, customer and employee non-solicitation, and non-competition provisions. If you are contacted for a role at Zillow Group and wish to review a copy of the Proprietary Rights Agreement prior to receiving an offer, you may request a copy from your Recruiter.

Job Tags

Temporary work, Work experience placement, Local area, Remote job, Flexible hours,

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